28.3731, FYI: IEEE CIS Newsletter

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-3731. Mon Sep 11 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.3731, FYI: IEEE CIS Newsletter

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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 15:46:25
From: Pierre-Yves Oudeyer [pierre-yves.oudeyer at inria.fr]
Subject: IEEE CIS Newsletter

 
Dear colleagues,

I am happy to announce the release of the latest issue of the IEEE CIS
Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (open access).

This is a biannual newsletter addressing the sciences of developmental and
cognitive processes in natural and artificial organisms, from humans to
robots, at the crossroads of cognitive science, developmental psychology,
artificial intelligence and neuroscience. 

It is available at: http://goo.gl/dyrg6s

Featuring dialog:

''Exploring Robotic Minds by Predictive Coding Principle''
- Dialog initiated by Jun Tani
with responses from: Andy Clark, Doug Blank, James Marshall, Lisa Meeden,
Stephane Doncieux, Giovanni Pezzulo, Martin Butz, Ezgi Kayhan, Johan Kwisthout
and Karl Friston
- Topic: The idea that the brain is pro-actively making predictions of the
future at multiple levels of hierarchy has become a central topic to explain
human intelligence and to design general artificial intelligence systems.

This dialog discusses whether hierarchical predictive coding enables a
paradigm shift in development robotics and AI. In particular, the dialog
reviews the importance of various complementary mechanisms to predictive
coding, which happen to be right now very actively researched in artificial
intelligence: intrinsic motivation and curiosity, multi-goal learning,
developmental stages (also called curriculum learning in machine learning),
and the role of self-organization. They also underline several major
challenges that need to be addressed for general artificial intelligence in
autonomous robots, and that current research in deep learning fails to
address: 1) the problem of the poverty of stimulus: autonomous robots, like
humans, have access to only little data as they have to collect it themselves
with severe time and space constraints; 2) the problem of information
sampling: which experiments/observations to make to improve one’s world model.
Finally, they also discuss the issue of how these mechanisms arise in infants
and participate to their development.

Call for new dialog:

''One Developmental Cognitive Architecture to Rule Them All?''
- Dialog initiated by Matthias Rolf, Lorijn Zaadnoordijk, Johan Kwisthout
- This new dialog asks whether and how it would be useful both
epistemologically and in practice to aim towards the development of a
“standard integrated cognitive architecture”, akin to “standard models” in
physics. In par- ticular, they ask this question in the context of
understanding development in infants, and of building developmental
architectures, thus addressing the issue of architectures that not only learn,
but that are adaptive themselves. Those of you interested in reacting to this
dialog initiation are welcome to submit a response by November 30, 2017. The
length of each response must be between 600 and 800 words including references
(contact pierre-yves.oudeyer at inria.fr).

Let me remind you that all issues of the newsletter are all open-access and
available at: http://icdl-epirob.org/cdsnl

I wish you a stimulating reading!

Best regards,

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,
Editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
Chair of the IEEE CIS AMD Technical Committee on Cognitive and Developmental
Systems
Research director, Inria
Head of Flowers project-team
Inria and Ensta ParisTech, France
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pyoudeyer

and 

Fabien Benureau
Assistant Editor
Inria Mnemosyne team
http://fabien.benureau.com
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Computational Linguistics





 



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